INFOWARS: Schwarzenegger calls for ‘hip, sexy’ environmentalism
AFP
January 31, 2013
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Arnold Schwarzenegger called Thursday for an end to “doom and gloom” environmentalism as he hosted the first conference of his new green movement fostering action by local governments and individuals.
“If we want to inspire the world, it is time for us to forget about the old way of talking about climate change, where we crush people, where we overwhelm people with data,” the former California governor, bodybuilder and film star said.
“There is a new way, a more sexy, a more hip way. Instead of using doom and gloom and telling people what they can’t do, we should make them part of our movement and tell them what they can do,” he said.
Are Drone Strikes and Kill Lists The New Normal? Q&A w Newsweek’s Eli Lake (by ReasonTV)
Disturbed by extra-constitutional U.S. drone strikes in countries such as Yemen and Pakistan? Presidential “kill lists” of suspected terrorists and security threats raise endless ethical and constitutional concerns?
A decade-plus after the 9/11 attacks and the launching of a vaguely defined and expansive global “war on terror”, Americans are grappling with appalling revelations that the president claims the right, without any sort of judicial or legislative review or approval, to assassinate individuals (even American citizens) and groups he believes are national security threats.
Reason’s Nick Gillespie talks with Eli Lake, the senior national security correspondent for The Daily Beast/Newsweek (and an occasional Reason contributor) and discusses the effects of technological developments and power grabs by both President George W. Bush and Barack Obama on military action.
Lake believes that a tentative consensus has formed around the use of drone strikes and targeted killings. “I think there’s a much better chance, if libertarians are worried about it,” he says, “of introducing some sort of oversight…and some degree of transparency in that process than it is to say we can’t do it.”
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Letters Reveal Eric Cantor Begged for Stimulus Money to Create Jobs
from PoliticusUSA:
During a March 1, 2009 appearance on ABC’s This Week, Rep. Cantor said that the government can’t create jobs, “And what we see in this budget, frankly, is an attempt, again, to try and stimulate the economy through government expenditure. And, you know, at best what that can do is redistribute wealth. It can’t create jobs; it can’t create wealth. We’ve got to get back to focusing on job creation and creating prosperity.”
Newsweek has uncovered letters that show Rep. Cantor requesting hundreds of millions of stimulus dollars for his district at the same time; he was publicly claiming that government can’t create jobs.
Just a month after going on ABC and claiming that the government can’t create jobs, Cantor sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to request almost $75 million in federal stimulus funds for the I-95 high speed rail project. Cantor along with Rep. Bobby Scott wrote that, “High speed rail provides a sensible and viable solution to our region’s transportation challenges. It is estimated that creating a high speed railway through Virginia will generate as many as 185,500 jobs, as much as $21.2 billion in economic development, and put nearly 6.5 million cars off the road annually.”
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Bill Nye “The Science Guy” Defends Al Gore
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Al Gore claims that those who question man made global warming are similar to racists. Bill Nye compares races to dog breeds in defense of Al Gore.
